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www.MOSTmag.com || FASHIO N MAG A ZINE || 71By Denise Smith t fifteen, Jean Louisa Kelly was living the dream. A Broadway baby, she was starring in the Tony Award-winning Sondheim classic, Into the Woods, living in the village in New York, and taking the subway to school a couple days a week. On Sunday nights after the matinee, she would take the Amtrak train up to New England to see her family and then return to New York Tuesday morning for the show. This was a strong start for this captivating talent. Growing up in a small town in Massachusetts, New York was a culture shock. Her mother taught her how to use the subway as she was learning it herself. %u201cIt was probably as scary for my mother as it was for me.%u201d Her mother was a piano teacher who taught Jean Louisa and her siblings to read music. Even though her home town was small, it was an amazing source of talent for a creative young person. %u201cI had wonderful teachers in voice and dance, and we had a strong theater community.%u201d When the Irish beauty looks back, she sees how fortunate she was to grow up in a cocoon of rural beauty with its wonderful cultural engagements. www.jeanlouisakelly.comACTRESS // SINGER // DANCER of STAGE // FILM // TELEVISIONACLASSIC FILM STAR of UNCLE BUCK andMR HOLLAND%u2019S OPUS